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Andoe’s Society Column: A Theater Maven’s Cruella De Vil-Themed Birthday

1 year 6 months ago
Saturday evening, STLFringe President and Artistic Director Matthew R. Kerns celebrated his 51st birthday with a Cruella de Vil-themed party at Mykel McIntosh's sumptuous new Midtown wine bar, Videira. The guest list was primarily made up of members of the theater community and Kerns’ Lafayette Square neighbors.
Chris Andoe

Missouri may deny meat packer’s request to dump wastewater in river

1 year 6 months ago

State regulators are poised to deny a request from a southwest Missouri meat packer to discharge treated wastewater directly into a river already impaired by E. coli.  Missouri Prime Beef Packers requested permission from the state to treat wastewater from its meatpacking operation near Pleasant Hope using a proprietary microbe technology and discharge it directly […]

The post Missouri may deny meat packer’s request to dump wastewater in river appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Allison Kite

The Next Insulin Scandal

1 year 6 months ago
A generic cold medicine available in Europe also turns out to have benefits for Parkinson’s. Biden could prevent the usual effort to patent it and jack up the price.
Robert Kuttner

Built St. Louis: Iron

1 year 6 months ago
This post is part of a series about the materials that built St. Louis. Southeastern Missouri’s Iron Range stretches roughly from the St. James area down toward Bonne Terre. Iron had been mined in this area since 1826, when the Merrimac Iron Works opened up, but it wasn’t until the 1850s that the material really started taking …
Brittany Krewson